Given the recession of 2008, the Croatian economy has been on the road to recovery since 2015, but the labor market is still not at a satisfactory level. Despite falling unemployment, Croatia still belongs to the countries with the highest unemployment rate in the EU, and employment rates and activities are among the lowest in the European Union. With the accession to the EU in 2013, the total population decreased, and the result was a large emigration of the working age population to richer European countries. Following the above, it can be seen that the employment rate in Croatia is one of the leading economic and social problems, but also a topic that does not receive much needed attention. Precisely because of this, the analysis of employment in Croatia was chosen as the topic of writing the paper. The subject of the research will be the analysis of employment trends in Croatia in the given period from 2008 to 2020. The analysis aims to investigate the trend of employment in the Republic of Croatia according to counties, gender, age and level of education. Special attention will be paid to the analysis of youth employment in Croatia, the use of active employment measures and based on the National Strategy of the Republic of Croatia until 2030, future guidelines and development forecasts with regard to the subject of research will be explained.